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Grants are a curse
unpopular opinion time. in my socialist quebec, the government has created so much support that we now have “subvention experts”. yes, talented folks taking advantage of the humongous subvention ecosystem we have here in Quebec.
How do we distinguish ourselves in Quebec, what’s our national product? Subventions.
No one’s paying for shit, it’s a distorted market that cannot compete globally (the REAL source of GDP growth).
When no one wants to do business without a grant, houston, we have a major one. Then as a competitive entrepreneur, you don’t have no choice but to also play the grant game, game theory being right.
Government looses, entrepreneurs loose from both side. Maybe just from the taxation side of things, but how can a gov’t spend taxes right if they’re creating idiotic policies like this?
gov’t are top 10 broken models in this world. symptoms: ppl are more and more pissed and separated.
There are 2 problems apart from the socialist ideology that lead to this grant circus/participation vanity/nocomp countries:
1- non-business folks running a government. the true entrepreneur breed is very rare, probably 0.0001%. I can’t point to a clear example of a country leader that had global biz knowledge. In our modern times, this would be the equivalent of…